Sunday, May 04, 2008

An example from Ecuador

The government is whingeing about the million dollars it'll supposedly cost to repair the damage peace activists made to the US-run spy base at Waihopai last week. A million bucks is small beer, of course, compared to the half a billion dollars New Zealand has shelled out to build and run the facility on behalf of Uncle Sam over the past couple of decades. While Helen Clark frets about the best way to placate the Yanks and tries to paint Christian pacifists as dangerous terrorists, Ecuador's Rafael Correa is taking a very different attitude to US bases and the machinations of the CIA.

1 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Every person with a consciousness should be worried and concerningthemselves with what is occurring in Bolivia. The United States is on theverge of unleashing a war that would shake the region and which, in theshort term, could lead to a state of commotion and belligerence in all ofSouth America.

The excuse is the demand for autonomy by four departments (Santa Cruz, Beni,Pando and Tarija); the instrument, the oligarchy; the means, mercenariesfinanced, trained and commanded by the State Department via the CIA andother agencies; the objective, fragment Bolivia, detain the revolutionaryprocess headed by Evo Morales, start a prairie fire in the Southern Cone andcreate the conditions to attack Venezuela and Ecuador afterwards. Followingthe events of last Sunday, Paraguay is now also threatened.The US needs war. The capitalist economy cannot longer continue to breathewithout it. Those that believe that because imperialism is bogged down inIraq, it is unable to open up other combat front are mistaken. In fact, theinverse is true: the only way out for them is to push forward. But they hopeto do this by taking a side street, mirroring the line of march in theMiddle East: provoke objective fissures of an economic, social, ethnic andreligious nature; find latent conflicts; unleash war between factions, placethemselves above all this and preside over the mutual destruction of thepeoples.........http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2008/05/future-is-at-stake-in-bolivia.html